New York Yankees – Leadership and Team Is Everything:

New York Yankees  $29 million-a-season slugger is benched in bottom of the ninth inning. How did  Alex Rodriguez  handle it?   The  37-year-old Alex Rodriguez handled it with class and responded the Yankees way.  He cheered for his team mate.  

 “I’m one of the leaders of his team; maybe 10 years ago I react a much different way, but I’m at a place in my career right now where team means everything.” – Alex Rodriguez

Work Hard, Wait Patiently, Stay Positive and Perform When Given Chance:

 Raul Ibanez  tied the game with a homer in the bottom of the 9th inning. Raul Ibanez than won the game in the bottom of the 12th with a solo home run. 

The New York Yankees way, is about team. The Yankees have lots of talent. But talent does not guarantee championships. To be a member of the Yankees, players need to do their job and fulfill their role. When your not playing, players need to stay positive and cheer on their team mates. The Yankees have won 27 World Series, 40 American League Pennants and 18 East Division Titles. 

Power Thoughts:   

One of the major reason the Yankees are so successful is leadership. Derek Jeter is considered one of the greatest leaders in sports. Jeter  leads both in the locker room and on the field with his performance. Jeter is a role model for all the players in baseball.

Derek Jeter

The basic building block of good team building is for a leader to promote the feeling that every human being is unique and adds value. 
                                                                                                                        – Anonymous

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. 
                                                                                -Michael Jordan

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

You Cannot Win Without Leaders – One Leader Is Not Enough

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Learning From Spain’s 4-0 Victory In …

Four on Four Small Game 

We have four goalies right now. This is a great drill for under 12 players. The players really enjoy this drill.

Rules (Adjust the Game):

• You can play 4 v 4,  3 v 3 or 2 v 2 
• Players can shoot on any of the four goals
• You have to make 1 to 3 passes before shooting
• Execute a cross or cycle before shooting

Skills:

• Escape Moves – Skating
• Stickhandling
• Puck protection
• Passing
• Shooting, Saves and Rebounding

Tactics:

• Take puck to net
• Move away from pressure
• Escape moves
• Switching point of attack
• Forces players to play good  man to man defensive coverage
• Crossing and Cycles

Baskent Bad Defensive Rush

Teaching Points:

• Defense Must Skate Backwards

• Tight Gap – 1 Stick

• Do Not Turn Your Back to Play

• See the Players Away from the Puck

• Stick On Ice – Block Passing Lanes

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Six Critical Mistakes on Defensive Rush – Japan v. Turkey 2011

Turkey – PR Korea Defensive Read the Rush

In this video the defense communicates 2 times to the forward to pick up man. But the forwards fails to get to middle ice and pick up his man. Forwards need to backcheck between the dots.

Power Thoughts:

“I think what children need is love, security, stability, consistency, and kindness.“
-Rosie O’Donnell 

“If we can play like that every week we’ll get some level of consistency.“
-Alex Ferguson 

Sports Psychology Tips:

Consistency with mental and physical training is the key contributor to winning. The bottom line is success is achieved through consistency.  Consistency in your training, words, thoughts, energy, and attention to details. It is the consistency of your focus to improve everyday. You’ve got to be consistent, if you are going to produce high results.

• Follow a training schedule
• Set daily routines for yourself
• Do not let feelings interfere with your consistency
• Keep a record of training sessions
• Keep a journal how you performed
• Set new goals at the end of each day

Baskent Fails to Execute Good Penalty Killing System

Strategy & System:

• Overload Power Play v Box

HSC Csíkszereda is using overload power play.

General Teaching Rules:

• Puck is Low, Contract Box

• Puck is High, Expand Box

• Face the Play 

• Block the Passing Lanes

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Little Things: Patrick Dwyer Penalty Killing & Short Handed Goal, USA v. Canada IIHF 2012

Team USA Penalty Killing vs. Team Canada 2012 IIHF

Power Thoughts:

The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.

– Bob Proctor

Once we accept our limits, we can go beyond them.

– Albert Einstein

Don’t Limit Your Challenges… Challenge Your Limits.

– Anonymous

Sports Psychology Tips:

Beliefs Change Everything:

At one time everyone believed it was impossible to run a  sub-4-minute mile. On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person in the world to break this record. He held his world record for just six weeks before his great rival, John Landy of Australia, broke it. 


Now high school athletes can run sub-4-minute mile.

In 2010 there were 347 Americans and 1192 runner world wide to achieve this goal.  

What Changed? What made it possible for so many people to break the four minute barrier?

Beliefs Changed Everything! Once someone did it, other believed they could do it to. 

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right. 
-Henry Ford 

The victor 
By: C. W. Longenecker 

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you like to win, but you think you can’t,
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will.
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can

Stopping for Loose Puck on Faceoff -Alparslan Bakanoğlu

Rules: 

• The strong side wing (LW) must stop for loose pucks

Related Videos & Teaching Point: 

Team Canada Defensive Zone Face Off – Weak Side Winger Post Up Low Near Goal Line

New York Rangers Quick Transition On Defensive Zone Face Off

USA Creating Problems for Finland on Defensive Zone Face Offs

Power Thoughts:

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sports Psychology Tips:


Coaches Must Demanded From Themselves To Follow a Definite Plan for Success:

Great coaching requires that you follow a plan, emphasizing organization and working efficiently on and off the ice.  It’s important that coaches do not get distracted from  routines imposed on them from outside the game. Practice needs to start on time and end on time according to your plan; Not your moods! You have to keep your motivation high, make sure you follow your plan and get things done. 

• Follow the plan
• Read and feel the flow
• Know when to press forward
• Know when to make adjustments
• Know when to rest

Coaching Symposium Erzurum 2012 – Passing Warm Up (On Ice Session)

We have 20 warm up passing drills we use. We start each practice with 1 or 2 passing drills. We adjust the following components for passing and receiving.

• Change Passing Techniques and Tactics
• Change Angles
• Change Space
• Change Shapes
• Change Numbers

Goals:

• Minimum 2100 successful passes in 10 minutes

Teaching Point:

• Keep your eyes up
• See the entire ice
• Call for the puck
• Stick on ice, facing the puck
• Right angle to path of puck
• Make the pass part of stride
• Move the puck to bent knee
• Cup, push point

Drill Components:

• Multiple Repetitions
• Multiple Touches
• High Speed & Timing
• Multiple Skills & Tactics

Skills:

• Side to Side Passing
• Forward – Backwards Skating & Passing
• Diagonal Front and Back Passing
• Diagonal Forward – Backwards Skating & Passing
• Touch Passes (1, 2)

Tactics:

• Spacing

 Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: The Art of Passing

Improve Your Passing Game:

MOVE YOUR MOUTH, MOVE YOUR LEGS & MOVE THE PUCK  

Power Thoughts:

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
––Harvey S. Firestone 


“You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.”
––Harvey S. Firestone 

“Success is the sum of details.” 

–Harvey S. Firestone 

Sports Psychology Tips:

We do not look at the clock when we practice. Having a set time frame is important. But our focus is on quality touches and repetitions in a block of time. The amount of time your spend practicing, does not guarantee success. Only through quality training repetition and touches will you improve your game. If you want to produces the best results, focus on the quality of your work, not the hours.

• If I see us making to many mistakes, we adjust the drill
• We want to focus ad on successful repetitions
• Do not practice bad execution
• Good in; Good out!
• Bad in; Bad out!

Sweeney Drill – 1 v 0

Techniques:

• Passing & receiving passes

Tactics:

• Control skating
• Timing

Keys:

• See the puck
• Two way communication between passer & receiver

• One player per lane

• Have your stick on the ice
• Have your stick at a right angle to receive puck

Terms:

• Control skate, communicate & accelerate

Sweeney Drill:  Flow drill to work on control skating, timing and passing. This is a continuous drill working from both ends. After the pass or shot, players go to next line.

• 1 starts the dill after shot
• 1 & 2 exchange lanes
• 1 passes to 2
• 2 & 3 exchanges lanes
• 2 passes to 3 at blue line

Progressions 

Entering Zone Wide:       

•  Add 4th player to rebound

• Attacking Middle Seam:

•  Add 4th player to rebound

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 1)

3 v 1 Wise Drill (Part 2)

Power Thoughts:

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it:
1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.”  Paul “Bear” Bryant (Great Football Coach)

Jeremiah 24:6

I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.

“I believe that my work is as much about words as basketball.  Choosing the right words to say to players is no less important than picking the starting line-up or court strategies.”

-Mike Krzyzewski

Sports Psychology Tips:

Create Vision for Your Players:

Great leaders, teachers, coaches and counselors very often, see potential in other people that they can’t see in themselves. It our job as a coach to provide vision into them. Players often need to  be told what they can become. Players need to be told what is possible. Players want direction for their life. Your words have the power to lift players up, push them in the right direction and create a vision for their future.

• Choose to plant positive seeds
• Choose to encourage someone today
• Choose to speak hope
• Choose to speak life into dreams
• Choose to speak a vision of a great life
• Choose to speak about potential; Not problems

Defensive Zone Coverage Mistakes By Turkey: World University Game 2011 – Part 2

Turkey Fails to Execute Following Teaching Points:

Turkey allowed Korea to set up 2 v 1’s throughout game 

Defensive Zone Mistakes: Turkey v. Korea World University Games 2011 – Part 1:

System: 

• Turkey does not seem to have any set coverage.

Five Turkish players are in straight line.

Keys:

Teaching Points 2-1-2 Woman’s World University Games 2011

Strategy & System:

Keys:

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Defensive Zone Coverage, Isolating …

Canada 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage IIHF WC 2012

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Defensive Zone Mistakes – Turkey v …

Power Thoughts:

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
–William A. Ward

Sports Psychology Tips:

The problem maybe with your thoughts or feelings, but the answer is in actions. Create a plan, set goals and take action today.  Everyday you need to be taking action to achieve your goals and dreams. 

Take Action Today:

“Never confuse movement with action.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

                     Micheal Phelps – 5 YEARS NO DAYS OFF

2-1-2 Defensive Zone System & Tactics

Rules for 2-1-2 Systems:

• Always have pressure on puck carrier
• Finish your checks
• 1st man body, 2nd man puck
• Man, You, Goal
• Body in shooting lane
• Sticks in passing lanes

Canada 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage IIHF WC 2012

System : 2-1-2 Overload

• Overload 5 players one side of ice

Tactics

• Always press the puck carrier
• Always Out number the opposition 
• Block the passing lanes

Reads:

• When puck is on boards, overload zone

Keys:

• Early pressure
• Always out number in small area
• Get possession of the puck

 Anaheim Ducks executed 2-1-2 Overload Defensive Zone Coverage in 2007 and won the Stanley Cup.   

Power Thoughts:

“Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”  -Steve Prefontaine

“A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.”
–Steve Prefontaine

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
–Steve Prefontaine

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Team USA Failed to Capitalize on Good Forechecking…

Team USA Failed to Capitalize on Good Forechecking vs. Finland

Principles:

• Force the opposition to make 2 or more passes to breakout.
• Force the opposition to turn back, lets you control the tempo of the game

Rules:

• Always forecheck with your stick on the ice
• First man body, second man picks up puck

Teaching Keys:

• Pressure hard after loose pucks
• Use your Stick to direct the man where you want him to go 
• Take a good angle or circular approach when forechecking
• Stick in passing lanes
• Finish your check

Terms:

Active Smart Stick:  
A smart stick placement forces the puck carrier to pass the puck where you want.

Body, Stick, Puck:
Play the body first, stick second and pick up puck third.



Related Videos:

USA Makes Bad Reads On Forechecking & Defensive Rush

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: John Trvares Forechecking Goal …

Power Thoughts: 

“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.”
-Les Brown

“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.”
-Les Brown

Sports Psychology Tips:

FLY LIKE A BUMBLEBEE 

• Do not let people or events in your life stop you!
• Do not let your little voice stop you from flying!

According to the laws

of aerodynamics,

the bumblebee is

unable to fly.

This is because

the size, weight, and

shape of its body

in relation to the

total wing-span

makes flying impossible.

The bumblebee,

being ignorant of

these laws,

goes ahead  and flies anyway!   

            -author unknown

Korea Support, Pass, Cross & Cycle

Tactics:

• Cycle and Cross

Keys:

• Man at net is screening goalie

• Move to corner to support

• Move, Pass and Cross

• Stop & Support and Cycle

Related Videos & Teaching Points:

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Ireland Teaching Highlight IIHF WC …

Keith McAdams Coaching Tips: Sweden Executes Two Cycles …

Power Thoughts:

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”

-Zig Ziglar

“If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.”
-Zig Ziglar